Submitted by: Julie Skinner
School: Deep Run High School
Summary
Students will imagine that they have found a flash drive belonging to a character from Romeo and Juliet. The storage device contains personal documents of the character – for his or her eyes only. They will re-create documents from the flash drive, thus elaborating on the insights, feelings, and behaviors of the character. The documents will show multiple sides of the character and will extend information found in the play.
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This lesson is approaching as students must respond to the class assignment requiring information to be analyzed, then organize their information in a meaningful way, and utilize digital tools to communicate their understandings of their chosen character.
This lesson is approaching as students form their own groups, and then work together to divide tasks, utilizing the strengths of their members, to complete the assignment and demonstrate their learning.
Approaching, as students use problem solving techniques to work through content issues, as well as technology problems that arise. Critical thinking skills are essential to the project, as analysis of the character is the central task.
This is approaching as students must be creative and original in their ideas, as each of the recreations of documents requires an ‘out of the box’ approach. By combining existing information and their own ideas, students are creating authentic to meet and often exceed the assignment guidelines.
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